102.8 + pink eye = lack of sleep + one cranky toddler

Sleep in our house is really lacking. This past week Eli has not been sleeping well and we thought it was due to his canines coming in. Other than sleep issues, we had no other real indication that something was wrong. Friday night Eli was up for a few hours in the middle of the night and he was burning up. I thought it was due to how I dressed him so we down-dressed and got him back to bed. Yesterday he seemed not quite himself but still had fun with Ryan at the library. Well, it all came to a head last night. His temperature started climbing and his energy started dropping. Into the night, his temp got to 102.5 degrees - the highest we've seen for him. We had a plan of attack and Tim + I tag teamed the night to get us all through. I think we each managed to get 3 hours or so sleep at a time. This morning the wait for the doctor's hotline seemed like forever. We got an appointment this afternoon and his temp at doc's office was 102.8 - and this is under the arm without adding a degree! He definitely has pink eye - that was an easy diagnosis. They took a blood sample and checked his white blood cell counts. Those came back ok so that ruled out pneumonia. But then, that led us back to a viral respiratory infection (he's also coughing and breathing laboredly). Ugh, viral - that means no drugs will help him. We did get the antibiotic eye drops to help the pink eye and are just using Mommy + Daddy TLC and doses of Tylenol to combat the rest. I'll be staying home with him tomorrow so hopefully we're heading out of the woods on this. Tonight we've seen glimpses of our happy little boy and he's starting to talk to us again. He has been very lethargic so this is good.

Keep your fingers crossed for us that we'll have a decent night - or at least the patience and tag-teamness to make it through. This parenting thing stinks when your kids are sick and you can't do anything about it. I feel so bad for Eli and it makes my heart break to see his little crusted up eye and snotty nose knowing I can't just fix it.